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Miklos Bolza

'Bitter, savage': Roberts-Smith's silk lashes media

Three appeals judges have retired to consider Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation case. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)

Three judges have retired to consider a comprehensive attack by Ben Roberts-Smith on a devastating court ruling that news reports he committed war crimes were substantially true.

The Victoria Cross recipient has challenged a June judgment dismissing his defamation case over reports he was involved in the unlawful killing of four unarmed prisoners in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2012.

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